Exhort One Another. “If your gift is to come alongside others to exhort them, then give yourself to exhortation.” (Romans 12:8). Exhort: to urge to continue in the Faith; to beseech in strong terms; to come alongside to offer encouraging guidance; to inspire courage and hope; to call upon someone to act; to give affirming …
Honor One Another. “Take delight in honoring each other.” (Romans 12:10, NLT). Honor: show deference to; to prefer over one’s self; to highly esteem; to greatly respect; to revere; to focus on the importance of another. a. Honoring someone goes beyond mere respect. To honor another person is to revere that person because that person …
Restore One Another. “If someone in the fellowship is overtaken by some sin or mistake, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness.” (Galatians 6:1). Restore: to set right; to repair; to refit; to mend; to rejoin; to bring back to original state; to heal. a. God is in the …
Encourage One Another. “Let us encourage one another.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Paraclete: Called to come alongside someone in need, in order to help and bear burdens by Pointing to God, Advising, Reminding, Advocating for, Comforting, Listening, Exhorting, Teaching and Encouraging. a. Some translations have “comfort” instead of “encourage” in this verse, and there is a …
Warn One Another. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom.” (Colossians 3:16). Admonish: to warn; to caution; to place into someone’s awareness; to reprove gently; to call attention to; to alert another person’s thinking; to offer sound advice and guidance. a. Sooner or …
Build Up One Another. “Edify one another, just as you have already been doing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Edify: to build up a person or a community; to strengthen; to empower; to affirm certain qualities; to help someone or a group to grow, to reach maturity; to construct a building, an edifice, of faith and character …
(10.) Words that Sustain the Weary. “The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, Wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.” (Isaiah 50:4, NIV) Isaiah is singing one of his prophetic Servant Songs. This passage in Isaiah 50 …
A Whimsical Dictionary of Surprising Influences. I is for Intercession – Of all the types of prayer (such as adoration, confession, thanksgiving, on-going conversation, requests), I think intercession is the most confusing and mysterious. To intercede is to be brazen enough to approach the King in the throne room, and strong enough to lift someone …
(9.) Cooperative Discussions: Learning To Reason Together Human discourse, both public and private, is at an all-time low. Has civilized discussion ever reached a lower ebb than right now? Disagreement is somehow seen as unacceptable, and the virtue of discussing conflicting ideas to reach the truth is now viewed with so much suspicion as to …